Desperation? - Maybe it's just

Desperation? - Maybe it's just the proximity of the election - but is it just me, or are Democrats diving into the gutter head-first, looking for anything to toss at the GOP?

• On the Minnesota Politics mailing list, Democrats are accusing the Coleman campaign of systematically vandalizing Wellstone's yard signs. Leaving aside the mass of vandalized Coleman signs one can see around town, one wonders how DFLers would think any GOPer would risk being caught doing something so utterly stupid.
• Also on the MNPOL list, Democrats, stung by the allegations of electoral fraud arising from the Democratic Socialists of America's attempt to bring students up from Iowa to organize voters (DFL version) or vote under fraudulent ID (here in Minnesota, a registered voter can vouch for another voter, making their registration valid), are uttering the "M" word; McCarthyistic. Allegedly, the allegations are about disenfranchising the poor, not safeguarding the integrity of the electoral process. Doncha know. As if they're contradictory.
• A Dem apparatchik has is accusing Lamar Alexander of...maliciously twisting his finger?
  

Normal election-period crankiness? Or the sign of a party awash in desperation?

It'll be an interesting election.

Posted by Mitch at October 23, 2002 01:40 PM